Jürgen Kurths is Senior Advisor at Research Department 4 “Complexity Science” at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) as well as Professor and Senior Advisor at Humboldt University Berlin. He is an expert in the fields of theoretical physics, complex systems science as well as applications to the Earth system, infrastructure (e.g. power grids), the human brain, and other systems which are characterized by a high degree of complexity and nonlinearity.
Contact
14412 Potsdam
Office
Till Hollmann
phone +49-331-288-2470
email hollmann@pik-potsdam.de
Academic Training & Professional Experience
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1975 |
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Diploma in Mathematics, University of Rostock |
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1975 – 1983 |
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Scientist, Central Institute for solar-terrestrial Physics, Academy of Sciences, Berlin (East Germany) |
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1983 |
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Dr.rer.nat. (PhD) at the Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany |
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1984 – 1990 |
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Scientist, Central Institute for Astrophysics, Academy of Sciences, Potsdam (East Germany) |
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1990 – 1991 |
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Project leader at the Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam (Germany) |
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1991 |
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Habilitation: Theoretical Physics, University Rostock, Germany |
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1992 – 1996 |
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Director of the working group „Nonlinear Dynamics“ of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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1994 – 2008 |
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Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre “Dynamics of Complex Systems” at the University Potsdam |
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1994 – 2008 |
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Full Professor (C4) for Theoretical Physics/Nonlinear Dynamics at the University Potsdam |
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2009 - 2017 |
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6th Century Chair for Complex Systems Biology (part time), King´s College, University of Aberdeen (UK) |
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2008 - 06/2021 |
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Head of Research Department 4: Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
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2008 - 03/2021 |
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Full Professor for Nonlinear Dynamics, Institute of Physics, Humboldt |
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Since 07/2021 |
Senior Advisor Research Department 4: Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
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Since 04/2021 |
Professor and Senior Advisor, Department of Physics, Humboldt UniversityBerlin (HU) |
Other Professional Service Activities
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2000 – 2001 |
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Vice-President for Research and International Relations, at the University Potsdam |
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1998 – 2010 |
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Vice-Speaker of Sonderforschungsbereich 555 „Komplexe Nichtlineare Prozesse“ (DFG) |
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1999 – 2009 |
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President of the Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam |
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2000 – 2005 |
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President of the European Geophysical Union for the Division Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
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2000 – 2008 |
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Coordinator of the Profilbereich “Komplexe Systeme” at the University Potsdam |
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2001 – 2007 |
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Co-Coordinator of Schwerpunktprogramm 1114 “Time Series Analysis and Image Processing” (DFG) |
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Since 2001 |
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Organizational Board “Experimental Chaos Conference” |
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2003 – 2006 |
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Speaker of the Research Group “Conflicting Rules in Cognitive Science” (DFG) |
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2004 – 2009 |
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Member of the steering committee of the Network of Excellence BIOSIM (EU) |
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2007 – 2011 |
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Member of the steering committee of GoFORSYS, Centre for Systems Biology, University Potsdam |
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2010 - 2014 |
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Member of the Advisory Board of Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology – FIRST (Japan) |
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2010 - 2016 |
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PI at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin |
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2011 – 2020 |
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Speaker of the International Research and Training Group (IRTG 1740): Dynamical and Transport Phenomena on Complex Networks (Germany and Brazil, DFG&FAPESP) |
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Since 2013 |
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Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (Germany) |
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Since 2016 |
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Elected Member of the Review Board, German Science Foundation |
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2016 - 2017 |
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Chairman Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin(PGzB) |
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2016 - 2019 |
Member of the Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Center Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research (Germany) |
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2016 - 2023 |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Baltic Kant University, Kaliningrad (Russia) |
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Since 2016 |
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Chapman Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks |
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Since 2016 |
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Honorary Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an (China) |
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Since 2018 |
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Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the MPI for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund (Germany) |
Awards and Nominations
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2000 |
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Fellow of the American Physical Society |
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2005 |
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Award Computers in Cardiology Challenge |
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2005 |
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Alexander von Humboldt Research Award from CSIR (India) |
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2008 |
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Honory Doctorate from Lobatschevsky University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia |
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2010 |
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Member of the Academia Europaea |
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2011 |
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Honorary Professor, University Potsdam |
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2012 |
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Guest Professor, Southeast University, Nanjing |
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2012 |
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Honorary Doctorate from State University, Saratov |
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2013 |
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Lewis Fry Richardson Medal of the European Geosciences Union |
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2015 |
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Burgers Visiting Professor and Burgers Lecture, University of Maryland |
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2017, 2018 |
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Highly Cited Researcher (WoS) |
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2017 |
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Honorary Professor, King´s College, University of Aberdeen |
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2018 |
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Honorary Professor, Tianjin University (China) |
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2018 |
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Honorary Professor, Huaqiao University, Xiamen (China) |
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2021 |
Fellow of the Royal Society Edinburgh |
Member of Board of Journals and Book Series
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2000-2011 |
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Int. Journal Bifurcation & Chaos |
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Since 2003 |
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Springer Series of Complexity |
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Since 2003 |
Int. Journal of Complex Systems Research |
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2004-2006 |
CHAOS, Advisory Board |
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2005-2016 |
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Executive Editor |
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Since 2006 |
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society |
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2007-2015 |
CHAOS, Editorial Board |
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2008-2013 |
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Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |
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Since 2009 |
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European Journal Physics, Special Topics |
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2010 |
EICE |
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Since 2011 |
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PLoS ONE |
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2012-2016 |
Journal of Nonlinear Science |
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Since 2012 |
Honorary board member of Int. J. Bif.&Chaos |
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Since 2012 |
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European Journal Physics, Nonlinear Biomedical Physics |
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Since 2015 |
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Europhysics Letters |
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Since 2016 |
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CHAOS, Editor-in-Chief |
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Since 2017 |
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AIMS Geosciences |
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Since 2017 |
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Advanced Theory and Simulations |
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Since 2017 |
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Editorial Board |
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Since 2018 |
Frontiers in Physics: Social Physics - Associate Editor |
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Since 2020 |
Nonlinear Dynamics - Topical Associate Editor |
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Since 2020 |
Journal of Physics: Complexity - Member Senior Advisory Panel |
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Since 2020 |
Journal Electronics - Editorial Board |
The complete list of publication please find here
recent selected publications
| today - 2017 |
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| Fan, J., Meng, J., Liu, Y., Ali Saberi, A., Kurths, J., Nagler, J. Universal gap scaling in percolation Nature Physics, 16, 455–461 (2020) |
| Meng, J., Fan, J., Ludescher, J., Agarwal, A., Chen, X., Bunde, A., Kurths, J., Schellnhuber, H. J. Complexity-based approach for El Niño magnitude forecasting before the spring predictability barrier Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 117, 1, 177-183 (2020) |
| Hellmann, F., Schultz, P., Jaros, P., Levchenko, R., Kapitaniak, T., Kurths, J., Maistrenko, Y. Network-induced multistability through lossy coupling and exotic solitary states Nature Communications, 11, 592 (2020) |
| Agarwal, A.; Caesar, L.; Marwan, N.; Maheswaran, R.; Merz, B.; Kurths, J. Network-based identification and characterization of teleconnections on different scales Nature Scientific Reports, 9, Art. 8808 (2019) |
| Ciemer, C.; Boers, N.; Hirota, M.; Kurths, J.; Müller-Hansen, F.; Oliveira, R. S.; Winkelmann, R. Higher resilience to climatic disturbances in tropical vegetation exposed to more variable rainfall Nature Geoscience, 12 , 3 (2019) |
| Boers, N.; Goswami, B.; Rheinwalt, A.; Bookhagen, B.; Hoskins, B.; Kurths, J. Complex networks reveal global pattern of extreme-rainfall teleconnections Nature, 566 , 7744 (2019) |
| Zou, Y.; Donner, R. V.; Marwan, N.; Donges, J. F.; Kurths, J. Complex network approaches to nonlinear time series analysis Physics Reports, 787, pp. 1-97 (2019) |
| Mukhin, D.; Gavrilov, A.; Loskutov, E.; Kurths, J.; Feigin, A. Bayesian data analysis for revealing causes of the middle Pleistocene transition Nature Scientific Reports, 9, Art. 7328 (2019) |
| Barfuss, W.; Donges, J. F.; Lade, S. J.; Kurths, J. When optimization for governing human-environment tipping elements is neither sustainable nor safe Nature Communications, 9 , Art. 2354 (2018) |
| Gelbrecht, M.; Boers, N.; Kurths, J. Phase coherence between precipitation in South America and Rossby waves Science Advances, 4 , Art. eaau3191 (2018) |
| Goswami, B.; Boers, N.; Rheinwalt, A.; Marwan, N.; Heitzig, J.; Breitenbach, S. F. M.; Kurths, J. Abrupt transitions in time series with uncertainties Nature Communications, 9 , Art. 48 (2018) |
| Wang, Z.; Jusup, M.; Wang, R.-W.; Shi, L.; Iwasa, Y.; Moreno, Y.; Kurths, J. Onymity promotes cooperation in social dilemma experiments Science Advances, 3 , e1601444 (2017) |
| He, W.; Zhang, B.; Han, Q.-L.; Qian, F.; Kurths, J.; Cao, J. Leader-following consensus of nonlinear multiagent systems with stochastic sampling IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 47 , 2, 327-338 p.(2017) |
| Boers, N; Marwan, N.; Barbosa, H. M. J.; Kurths, J. A deforestation-induced tipping point for the South American monsoon system Nature Scientific Reports, 7 , Art. 41489 (2017) |
| 2016 - 2013 |
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| Rodrigues, F. A.; Peron, T. K. DM.; Ji, P.; Kurths, J. The Kuramoto model in complex networks Physics Reports, 610 (2016) |
| Eroglu, D.; McRobie, F. H.; Ozken, I.; Stemler, T.; Wyrwoll, K.-H.; Breitenbach, S. F. M.; Marwan, N.; Kurths, J. See-saw relationship of the Holocene East Asian-Australian summer monsoon Nature Communications, 7 , 12929 (2016) |
| Stolbova, V.; Surovyatkina, E.; Bookhagen, B.; Kurths, J. Tipping elements of the Indian monsoon: Prediction of onset and withdrawal Geophysical Research Letters, 43 ,8 (2016) |
| Yi Yu, Gaoxi Xiao, Jie Zhou, Yubo Wang, Zhen Wang, Jürgen Kurths, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber System crash as dynamics of complex networks PNAS, Vol. 113, No. 42 (2016) |
| J. Runge, V. Petoukhov, J. Donges, J. Hlinka, N. Jajcay, M. Vejmelka, D. Hartman, N. Marwan, M. Palus, J. Kurths Identifying causal gateways and mediators in complex spatio-temporal systems Nature Communications, 6, 8502 (2015) |
| N. Boers, B. Bookhagen, H. M. J. Barbosa, N. Marwan, J. Kurths, J.A. Marengo Prediction of extreme floods in the eastern Central Andes based on a complex networks approach Nature Communications, 5, 5199 (2014) |
| N. Boers, A. Rheinwalt, B. Bookhagen, H. M. J. Barbosa, N. Marwan, J. Marengo, J. Kurths The South American rainfall dipole: A complex network analysis of extreme events Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 20, 7397-7405 p. (2014) |
| P. J. Menck, J. Heitzig, J. Kurths, H.J. Schellnhuber How dead ends undermine power grid stability Nature Communications, 5, 3969 (2014) |
| L. Li, H. Peng, J. Kurths, Y. Yang, H.J. Schellnhuber Chaos-order transition in foraging behavior of ants Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Early Edition (2014) |
| Y. Zou, T. Pereira, M. Small, Z. Liu, J. Kurths Basin of Attraction Determines Hysteresis in Explosive Synchronization Physical Review Letters 112, 114102 (2014) |
| A. Koseska, E. Volkov, J. Kurths Oscillation quenching mechanisms: Amplitude vs. oscillation death Physics Reports, 531, 4, 173–199 p. (2013) |
| P. Menck, J. Heitzig, N. Marwan, J. Kurths How basin stability complements the linear-stability paradigm Nature Physics, 9, 89–92 p. (2013) |
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S-Professur an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin
"Nichtlineare Dynamik"
an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät I :
Wintersemester 2019
Vorlesung: Computational Biosignalanalyse I - Einführung in die Signalanalyse und angewandte Statistik
Sommersemester 2019
Vorlesung: Computational Biosignalanalyse II - Nichtlineare Zeitreihenanalyse und Modellierung
Wintersemester 2018
Vorlesung: Complex Network Dynamik
Sommersemester 2018
Vorlesung: Nichtlineare Datenanalyse, Modellierung und Anwendungen
Seminar: Nichtlineare Dynamik
Wintersemester 2017
Vorlesung: Nichtlineare Dynamik und Komplexe Netzwerke im Erdsystem
Seminar: Nichtlineare Dynamik
Sommersemester 2017
Vorlesung: Biosignalanalyse für Physiker II - Nichtlineare Zeitreihenanalyse und Modellierung
Sommersemester 2016
Vorlesung: Nichtlineare Dynamik und Komplexe Netzwerke im Erdsystem
Vorlesung: Biosignalanalyse II - Nichtlineare Zeitreihenanalyse und Modellierung
Sommersemester 2015
Vorlesung: Nichtlineare Modellierung natürlicher Systeme: Vom System Erde zu Neurowissenschaften
Wintersemester 2014
Vorlesung: Komplexe Netzwerke - Theorie und Anwendungen
Wintersemester 2013
Vorlesung: Nichtlineare Modellierung natürlicher Systeme: Vom System Erde zu Neurowissenschaften
Sommersemester 2013
Vorlesung: Komplexe Netzwerke
Wintersemester 2012
Vorlesung: Nichtlineare Modellierung natürlicher Systeme: Vom System Erde zu Neurowissenschaften
Wintersemester 2011
Vorlesung: Nichtlineare Modellierung natürlicher Systeme: Vom System Erde zu Neurowissenschaften
Wintersemester 2010
Vorlesung: Nichtlineare Modellierung natürlicher Systeme: Vom System Erde zu Neurowissenschaften
Sommersemester 2010
Vorlesung: Fortgeschrittene Methoden der Biosignal- und Datenanalyse
Antrittsvorlesung , 13. Januar 2009:
„Synchronisation in komplexen Netzwerken - Theorie und Anwendungen in Lebens- und Umweltwissenschaften”
Visiting Professor in
- China
- Japan
- Spanien
- Indien
Editorial Boards
European Physical Journal, Special Topics
CHAOS - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Editor-in-Chief)
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (Editorial Board)
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics
International Journal Bifurcation & Chaos (Honory board member)
Advanced Theory and Simulations
Memberships
Fellow of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
Guest fellow of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the Academia Europaea
Fellow of the Royal Society Edinburgh
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, Vol. 30 (2020)
When Machine Learning Meets Complex Systems: Networks, Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics
Edited by Y. Tang, J. Kurths, W. Lin, L. Kocarev and E. Ott
The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Vol. 225, No. 1 (2016)
Synchronization and Control in Time-Delayed Complex Networks and Spatio-Temporal Patterns
Edited by S. Banerjee, J. Kurths and E. Schöll
The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Vol. 225, No. 3 (2016)
Health, Energy & Extreme Events in a Changing Climate
Edited by J. Heitzig, J. Graff Zivin, H. D. I. Abarbanel, L. Kocarev and J. Kurths
The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Vol. 223, No. 12 (2014)
Power Grids and Extreme Events
Edited by J. Heitzig, N. Fujiwara, K. Aihara, and J. Kurths
The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Vol. 223, No. 8 (2014)
Chaos, Cryptography and Communications
Edited by S. Banerjee and J. Kurths
The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Vol. 223, No. 4 (2014)
Synchronization of Pendula Systems
Edited by T. Kapitaniak and J. Kurths
The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Vol. 222, No. 2 (2013)
Recent Progress in Symbolic Dynamics and Permutation Complexity: Ten Years of Permutation Entropy
Edited by J. M. Amigó, K. Keller and J. Kurth
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 267 (2014)
Evolving Dynamical Networks
Edited by I. Belykh, M. di Bernardo, J. Kurths and M. Porfiri
Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society A, 371, 1990 (2013)
Theme Issue ‘Fractional calculus and its applications’
Compiled and edited by Changpin Li, YangQuan Chen and Jürgen Kurths
